During the voyage, there are Mokele-mbembe eggs (which Marty and Grace had found in the Congo in Cryptid Hunters) incubating in a laboratory restricted to most of the crew. Tentacles begins as the protagonists from Cryptid Hunters board the Coelacanth, a presumably haunted ship, on a voyage led by Dr. School Library Journal describes it as 'a high-octane page-turner'. With 319 pages, it is a good sized book and perfect for kids in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade.Tentacles is a 2009 young adult science fiction novel by Roland Smith and the sequel to Cryptid Hunters. If you like an exciting realistic fiction book, then TENTACLES is for you. For this reason, I connected TENTACLES to Jurassic Park because both book involve creatures that are not supposed to exist at this time. As the hunt for a Giant Squid continues, it reminded me that the reality of a Giant Squid existing is questionable. The other half will set the charges.” Everything goes wrong when Noah Blackwood sends his top agent undercover to kidnap his grandfather, Grace and the dinosaur moke’le’ mbembe’ hatchlings.Īs I read the story, TENTACLES, I found that I could relate its plot to Jurassic Park.

Everyone aboard the Coelacanth will drown if hidden charges aren’t defused. However, with their psycho grandfather, Marty and Grace are in terrible danger. The objective is to capture a Giant Squid off the coast of New Zealand. Although the search for them is funded by eWolfe- a major animal research company run by Wolfe himself- Marty and Grace travel on an expedition with the eWolfe crew. Newly discovered cousins, Marty and Grace O’Hara go to live with their Uncle Wolfe(Grace’s dad, as found out it Cryptid Hunters) because of a helicopter crash in which there are lost. TENTACLES is the most recent book he has written about cryptids. This was one of the many books about cryptids that Roland has written. As it turns out, their uncle is obsessed with cryptids. “So, you hadn’t met your uncle until this morning?” This was a quote from the book about Wolfe. After their parents are lost in a helicopter crash in the Congo, the O’Hara twins must live with their Uncle Wolfe a long-lost uncle.

Cryptid Hunters sets the scene for its sequel. A perfect example of this is his book, Cryptid Hunters. A long-lost relative is usually involved. A theme in most of Roland’s books includes a family who must go away from their hometown and start a new life because of a tragic event that happened within their families. He writes a wide variety of books ranging from alphabet books, such as W is for Waves, to serious tales of climbing Mt. Roland Smith has written many books all about animals. However, there is always a side that it is devastating towards.

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